• Films for the colonies[electronic resource] :cinema and the preservation of the British Empire /
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 791.430942
    Title/Author: Films for the colonies : cinema and the preservation of the British Empire // Tom Rice.
    Author: Rice, Tom.
    Published: Oakland, CA : : University of California Press,, c2019.
    Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : : ill.
    Subject: Motion pictures - History - 20th century. - Great Britain
    Subject: Motion pictures - Social aspects - 20th century.
    Subject: Great Britain - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9780520971813
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000229]: Films for the Colonies examines the British Government's use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new historical perspective on the last decades of the British Empire. It also offers a fresh exploration of British and global cinema, charting the emergence and endurance of new forms of cinema culture from Ghana to Jamaica, Malta to Malaysia. In highlighting the integral role of film in managing and maintaining a rapidly changing Empire, Tom Rice offers a compelling and far-reaching account of the media, propaganda, and the legacies of colonialism.
    Online resource: http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520971813
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